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Byzantine PoD, people like those! Short and sweet: Can Alexius Comnenus regain all of Anatolia with a PoD AFTER the Council of Clermont?
Alexius obviously wanted to retake Anatolia which had only recently been lost. He succeeded in taking the west and the coasts to an extent but the interior remained in the hands of Kilij Arslan. Kilij Arslan's losses to the crusaders at Nicea and Dorylaeum destabilized his alliances and eventually he just let them through. However he became more familiar with the westerners after that and crushed the 1101 crusade.
One possible PoD might be the death of Arslan. At Dorylaeum the rest of the Crusader army caught up to Arslan as he was hammering the vanguard. He only pulled back because he was in danger of being encircled. What if he is encircled and is killed in 1097? After all the 1101 crusaders were able to capture Ankara before going on to be massacred, so lack of good leadership counts for a lot.